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president obama marking that this evening at the white house. jay carney will hold his regular press briefing at 1:00 today. and i'll be there representing all of you. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: hey, good morning everybody! it is thursday, december 13. this is the "full court press." welcome to the program here on current tv coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours from our studio on capitol hill in washington, d.c. our nation's capital. with everything else going on here today president obama at the request of governors christie and cuomo president obama has asked congress for an extra $60 billion to help those two states, new york and new jersey, recover from the impact of hurricane sandy. but republicans in congress are balking. they're not buying it. they say there's no evidence there was that much damage from hurricane sandy. oh yeah? maybe they ought to talk to governor christie about that. we'll get into that and a whole lot more here. first we take time out to get the late
president obama marking that this evening at the white house. jay carney will hold his regular press briefing at 1:00 today. and i'll be there representing all of you. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: hey, good morning everybody! it is thursday, december 13. this is the "full court press." welcome to the program here on current tv coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours from our studio on capitol hill...
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en though obama our president. time magazine has announced their person of the year for 2012 is: president barack obama with a great big reelection win. time magazine's person of the year. good pick even though we don't like the social security compromise. >> this is "the bill press show." i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] shoes [ music ] >> this is "the bill press show." >> all right. so what's the man of the year doing today? celebrating. i don't know. pop the champagne corks. i don't know. he won the noble peace prize. time man of the year is nothing. have you seen man of the year before? person of the year. what am i saying? i am not sure. it's behind closed doors. he has national execute team and those appointments he is working on getting some flack over the possibility of chuck hagel being de
en though obama our president. time magazine has announced their person of the year for 2012 is: president barack obama with a great big reelection win. time magazine's person of the year. good pick even though we don't like the social security compromise. >> this is "the bill press show." i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of...
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president obama showed his irritation. he kind of put jake tapper down. >> obama: well, here's where i've been, jake. i've been president of the united states dealing with the worst economic crisis since the great depression. an auto industry on the verge of collapse. two wars. i don't think i've been on vacation. >> bill: you know what i would have said. i would have said i'll answer your question, jake tapper, when you show some respect for the president of the united states. shane is calling from richmond, virginia. good morning. >> caller: hi, bill. thank you for taking my call. >> bill: thank you. >> caller: thank you for staying on this issue. i really want to hear it addressed. i am pleased with what obama has put out there. what he's decided to do. i would like to see him also place a moratorium on gun manufacturing and sales. i tell you what i'm really upset with it about is the response from those senators who have said that they are not going to go along with gun regulations. >> bill: they're in the pocket of th
president obama showed his irritation. he kind of put jake tapper down. >> obama: well, here's where i've been, jake. i've been president of the united states dealing with the worst economic crisis since the great depression. an auto industry on the verge of collapse. two wars. i don't think i've been on vacation. >> bill: you know what i would have said. i would have said i'll answer your question, jake tapper, when you show some respect for the president of the united states....
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same thing with president obama. he's our president. i think people look at him as a president, not as african-american. there are no limits on what president obama can do if he's got the courage to do it. that's what we want from a president. i think to say these areas that -- an african-american, like any politician because you're african-american, these are things they can never touch. these are issues they can never have anything to deal with. whoa. do i want to go there? that's close to racist, i guess i want to say. close to it certainly. don't put limits on anybody because of the color of their skin. tierre, listen to me. david is calling from ft. benning, georgia. >> caller: hey bill. the very, very issue that's very close to my heart. the whole gun control issue because i don't believe that just because somebody abuses their second amendment right that somebody then has a right to step in and restrict mine. i heard you make reference earlier and some of the callers make reference to the second amendment and hunting. hunting for
same thing with president obama. he's our president. i think people look at him as a president, not as african-american. there are no limits on what president obama can do if he's got the courage to do it. that's what we want from a president. i think to say these areas that -- an african-american, like any politician because you're african-american, these are things they can never touch. these are issues they can never have anything to deal with. whoa. do i want to go there? that's close to...
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president obama didn't do anything. never talked about guns except in the tucson, arizona, but never did anything his entire first four years. i think we awe share some of the guilt at this and particularly against the semi automatic weapons like the ar-15, which was the gun used in aurora colorado, in the theater shooting, the gun used in portland, oregon last week and the gun that this nut case used in newtown, connecticut o friday. president obama, i must say, really, this really struck him as it struck all of us. in our briefing room on friday, he came in. nobody had ever seen the president so emotional, so moved when he talked about this one particularly struck him as a parent. >> they had their entire lives ahead of them birthdays graduations, weddings kids of their own. >> just think about all of that potential, all of those possibility did wiped out. last night, the president going to newtown, connecticut, meeting with the families of those little kids and telling us as a nation: this stuff has got to stop. >> w
president obama didn't do anything. never talked about guns except in the tucson, arizona, but never did anything his entire first four years. i think we awe share some of the guilt at this and particularly against the semi automatic weapons like the ar-15, which was the gun used in aurora colorado, in the theater shooting, the gun used in portland, oregon last week and the gun that this nut case used in newtown, connecticut o friday. president obama, i must say, really, this really struck him...
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with obama. i don't know what -- i am not sure why that's important at the that you can on the phone privately. they are looking for a way out they have signaled some private openness if they could kick it up to 37% instead of 39% if they get some entitlement savings they could sell. >> the president would get 39-6 for the upper income folks with doing nothing and no entitlement cuts by doing nothing? >> right. >> it would be a deal. you would guess the president would want some sort of package and wouldn't want to go over the cliff. it would be politically and substantively. this is what republican aids say. he has the chance to do something big. if he come our way i am not negotiating this. >> you need to get something in order to do something. we are getting ahead of ourselves. this is the conversation that we have to have. this is the conversation that's the going on all over washington today or at least should be except congress went home. >> we are talking about it. >> exactly. who needs co
with obama. i don't know what -- i am not sure why that's important at the that you can on the phone privately. they are looking for a way out they have signaled some private openness if they could kick it up to 37% instead of 39% if they get some entitlement savings they could sell. >> the president would get 39-6 for the upper income folks with doing nothing and no entitlement cuts by doing nothing? >> right. >> it would be a deal. you would guess the president would want...
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and obama wins that contest hands down. it turns out that the romney campaign was spending money like a drunken sailor if we can still use that phrase any more and wasting it on stuff they should not have been wasting it on and paying an inordinate salary to their staffers which does get you back to the question of -- first of all, let me give you some of the numbers here here. one big difference between the campains. the romney campaign spent a lot of its money on direct mail and telemarketing. the obama campaign spent its money on grassroots on getting people out to vote on lining people up. they did it for four years. it was a ground operation. it's really credited with giving president obama such a big win. romney spent $48 million for direct mail and $36 million ol tell marketing and robocalls which just doesn't work anymore. >> how did that work out for you? >> bill: who takes though robocalls anyway? everybody, i think, with any sense just hangs up or they look at their caller id and don't accept it. spooeshtsz it se
and obama wins that contest hands down. it turns out that the romney campaign was spending money like a drunken sailor if we can still use that phrase any more and wasting it on stuff they should not have been wasting it on and paying an inordinate salary to their staffers which does get you back to the question of -- first of all, let me give you some of the numbers here here. one big difference between the campains. the romney campaign spent a lot of its money on direct mail and...
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now it is happening under obama. we of have no choice but to be on the side of history here. >> try to influence it as best we can. >> bill: joe cirincione, evan, join in. we haven't talked about egypt yet. 1-866-55-press. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show" live on your radio and on current tv. who watch our show to be able to come away armed with facts and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. i want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. (vo) when the clock runs out when the last card is played what will be remembered? explore the lives of the famous and infamous who changed our world forever. experience the drama, back to back to back. of all the hours in all their days, the ones you'll never forget are the final 24. the final 24 mini-marathon this sunday on current tv. save the best for last. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: we've got it covered here on the "full court press." congresswoman do
now it is happening under obama. we of have no choice but to be on the side of history here. >> try to influence it as best we can. >> bill: joe cirincione, evan, join in. we haven't talked about egypt yet. 1-866-55-press. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show" live on your radio and on current tv. who watch our show to be able to come away armed with facts and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. i want them to...
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obama at the whitehouse last week. i must admit, it came out pretty good. >> looking good. >> festive. my column up with justice scalia and why he should recuse himself from the same-sex marriage case in front of the supreme court. >> that's posted on our website at billpressshow.com and soon be on twitter and faulkner facebook as well. now, on a friday. ♪ >> oh, yeah. >> here we go. we like to take a look back at our favorite sound bytes of the week and bring them up to date to you. our top five, favorite five, talk about them and work our way up to the top on the five on fox the other day, you know, the new movie zero dark 30 comes out in selected theaters next week, all about the osama bin laden raid. bill says he loves waterboarding. >> like i say waterboarding more like awesome boarding. the unspeakable truth is everybody wants -- they will never say this but everybody wants torture on the table. >> bill: yeah. yeah. everybody. i would like to water board him water board him off of that show. i just mentioned my
obama at the whitehouse last week. i must admit, it came out pretty good. >> looking good. >> festive. my column up with justice scalia and why he should recuse himself from the same-sex marriage case in front of the supreme court. >> that's posted on our website at billpressshow.com and soon be on twitter and faulkner facebook as well. now, on a friday. ♪ >> oh, yeah. >> here we go. we like to take a look back at our favorite sound bytes of the week and bring...
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the "the obama hate machine" having failed to dislodge obama now failing again to destroy labor unions. they were the biggest -- big big, big contributors in the campaign against the measure to put -- to enshrine collective bargaining in the michigan constitution. that initiative on the ballot november 6th which failed sadly in michigan. the koch brothers helped kill it. and now the koch brothers are of course, fueling this so-called right-to-work legislation and it's american legislative exchange council alec, that wrote the legislation that the michigan legislature adopted. peter, how do we weigh in on this? >> go to bpshow on twitter. we have all of the information there. right now, we're tweeting the governor rick schneider who his twitter handle is onetoughnerd. find him there under michigan.gov/governor. >> bill: let's break that one tough nerd. if you go to our web site, you'll get his telephone number and e-mail address. don't sign this legislation! one final point, "new york times" reporting this morning the average wage in right to work states for average worker, $57,732. in
the "the obama hate machine" having failed to dislodge obama now failing again to destroy labor unions. they were the biggest -- big big, big contributors in the campaign against the measure to put -- to enshrine collective bargaining in the michigan constitution. that initiative on the ballot november 6th which failed sadly in michigan. the koch brothers helped kill it. and now the koch brothers are of course, fueling this so-called right-to-work legislation and it's american...